Hello there! Happy Monday-after-Easter! I hope your weekend was lovely.
Ours was quite nice. Bartley and I went to the Plaza for dinner on Friday night and soooo enjoyed having dinner outside at one of the restaurants there. In fact, we enjoyed it so much that we decided to go back to the Plaza to do a little power-walking for some exercise on Saturday since it was so nice out. Of course, walking around the Plaza always means taking the Nikon along and when we came around the corner and saw these gorgeous tulip beds, I couldn't resist snapping a few piccies.
After we'd gotten our "workout" done, we headed to one of my favorite stores to visit in town, Nell Hill's. I've told you about Nell Hill's before....it's a home decor store and they change out the decor in all of the rooms quite often, so there's something different to see every time you go.
Right now, they have giant mirrors all over the place at Nell Hill's -- either hanging on the walls or standing on the floors -- so I snapped several photos of Bart and me while we walked around and shopped. I'm sure this was Bart's favorite part of the day! Hahaha.
Here, I even cut off part of Bartley's poor head. Nice. :)
Anyway, it was a great day to just spend some time together. Then, yesterday we had church and I sang at both services. Check out this song by Natalie Grant -- I sang it at the close of the services yesterday....such a great song.
After church, my family came over for lunch and of course, my Mom & Dad brought Easter candy for everyone. We had a ton of fun opening our Easter bags filled with plastic eggs and trading candy back and forth! I posted a picture of the Easter candy fun on Twitter, in case you missed it.
All right, so now that I've caught you up on my weekend, how about a card, yes?
This is another card made using Papertrey's anniversary set, Botanical Silhouettes, that is being sent to those customers that earned the set with their purchases last year.
For this little poppy card, I started out with a kraft card base. The poppy & stem images as well as the two sentiments (all from Botanical Silhouettes) were stamped on a piece of patterned paper from the Library Ledger collection.
Next to the sentiments, I added one of the vintage-looking postage stamps I created awhile back. I love the small touch those little stamps add.
Along the top of each of the flowers, I added a few touches with a Sakura gold glitter gel pen. It's very subtle, but very pretty when the light hits it.
Along the bottom of the pure poppy card stock layer, I used an Edgers #1 die to die cut the pretty edge. After adding the ledger paper to the pure poppy card stock, a bow of dark chocolate grosgrain ribbon was tied around the whole panel before it was adhered to the card front with foam adhesive.
I hope you had a wonderful weekend filled with joy and hope and loved ones and maybe even some Easter candy. ;)
Have a great week, friends!
{My Friends supplies}
Paper: kraft, rustic cream, pure poppy, library ledger
Stamps: Botanical Silhouettes, Postmarks
Ink: pure poppy, dark chocolate, vintage touch tea dye
Other: Edgers #1 die, postage die, dark chocolate classic grosgrain ribbon, Sakura gel pen
